oohh Vera, you are so beautiful!

The name of the city is Veracruz. A nice name I think. I like this city and maybe the best I have visited in Mexico. The historical center is not so big as others, but I like the old buildings and the atmosphere they have here. And you don´t get so many "eyes" on you all the time, because they are used to the gringos (tourists).

tires

Good way to take care of you tires is to change the front tire with the back tire after some kilometers.

After around 3400 km is time for me to do it on my bike "miss Brooks". This is from the hotel room in Veracruz.

After 3400 km biking on good and bad roads I haven´t got any puncture. So I am really happy and satisfied with my german Schwalbe tires, the best on the market.

I hope and guess the tires will last until 7-8000km, if I still continue so long on this journey. Normal and cheap tires only last maybe until 2-4000km.

hammock

One night I borrowed this hammock on a bungalow close to the beach. It was cool and nice, but I have had a better night. Not so comfortable, because I normally sleep on my stomach side. Very difficult to do in a small hammock.My plan was to sleep only in my sleeping bag on the beach, but because lot of crabs walking on the sand during the night and a ugly dirty dog after me all the time I decided to sleep in the hammock. Pic 1 the "night" with the "moon". Pic 2 the "morning" with the "sunrise". The lucky man!

oohh my good friend Oxxo!

OXXO is like seven-eleven in Norway. I get really happy and appreciate when I see this shop along the road. Is so good to have a break there, buy something cold to drink, something that gives you energy like a chocolate, chips or food and they have air condition so you can "cool" down.

And you don´t steal in this OXXO, the police station is just beside it.

PEMEX is the national oil company in Mexico, own and controlled by the government. So it is only PEMEX in Mexico and no other oil companies. Can you imagine only Statoil in Norway? I guess you can Mr. Susort, haha!

Where you find PEMEX, you normally also find OXXO.

The price of 1 liter gasoline in Mexico is around 4 NOK. Can you fix that in Norway Mr. Susort? haha!

Top 5 offshore producers 2009: 1.Saudi Arabia 2.Usa 3.Norway 4.Mexico 5.Brazil (source:National Geographic)

a bike sign!!!

only one I have seen in Mexico.

little me and the giant

This area around the city called Alamo on the east side of Mexico, is well known for different citrus fruits.

Can you find me on the picture?

instant noodles

also in Mexico and it cost around 7 pesos (3,5 NOK). but the advocadoes and the tomatoes is really good and tasty. better than in Norway.